I have set up VSFTPD on my Ubuntu 12.04. Nearly everthing is working fine. Connecting, authentication, retrieving directory listings, downloadings files. All works as expected. My problem is the file ...

I'm trying to create a VM, using VMWare Player, with an ISO image of Ubuntu Server 12.04 (LTS). The machine I'm doing the installation on has an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU, and runs 64-bit Windows 7
I ...

I have two monitors, one that is hdmi-to-dvi and the other vga-to-dvi. I have an AMD HD Radeon 6900 series graphics card installed. I got Ubuntu to display dual monitors, but then I restarted for an ...

I have a dual boot (Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 8) system. Both systems have access to an NTFS "DATA" partition which contains all my images, documents, music and some application data like Chrome and ...

I run a Windows 7 Pro SP1 laptop as my home machine, and my housemate runs an Ubuntu 12.04.1.05 desktop. We share a WLAN. I would like to make certain locations and files available for him to read and ...

I have connected two computers (a laptop and a desktop), using a wired connection. The laptop has Ubuntu 12.10 and the desktop has windows 7. The connection is good and I'm able to share the internet ...

I have just purchased a new HP dv7t-7000 and I would like to run Windows 7 / Ubuntu.
How do I setup the dual boot? Can I install both operating systems with an 8gb USB drive?
Can I still make use of ...

I would really appreciate it if someone could help me.
Please let me know if you need more info in the comments.
My Set Up
I have a windows 7 pc. On it I run a virtual box VM with a ubuntu 12 guest ...

I'm running a server at home with rtorrent and apache2. I would like to route my rtorrent traffic via OpenVPN and since im kinda new to OpenVPN and iptables i would like to have a user friendly guide.
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When I use a pendrive with Ubuntu, it sometimes disconnects. I looked in syslog and I found I/O error, dev sdb, sector 31159048, so I suppose it's a bad sector. How can I fix it?
Here's a full log of ...

I have dual booted Ubuntu Linux 12.04.1 LTS on my Samsung Series 5 ChromeBook, and am trying to run/install Oracle VirtualBox (from the generic .run file downloaded from their website). However, every ...

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit, with all updates installed.
I made a simple shell script that starts a SOCKS5 tunnel and launches Firefox (with correct network proxy settings) to use the tunnel. How ...

So I have a python script which is executed by cron job on a nightly basis to capture data on my data server (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS), this data is being written to a text file. Is there a command to stream ...

All music files play as mono on my Ubuntu 12.04 installation.System soundcard (integrated): nVidia MCP61 High Definition Audio (Realtek ALC662). Did anyone have the same problem? What's the solution?
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How to make a shell script execute it's commands as source commands without having to use "source scriptname.sh" expression to launch the script? Basically what I want is to type ./scriptname.sh and ...

I have a fully setup ubuntu 12.04 installed on a single drive and formatting it just to setup raid-1 is not an option
Unlike other answers like this one: Ubuntu 12.04 - Add RAID 1 Array on existing ...

I'm installing lenstool on a 11.10 ubuntu computer. I already have installed it on my 12.04 laptop and , although after a lot of struggling, it worked. But this time I am getting a weird error. First ...

I have used my Ubuntu server as backup through my network with my Mac Book Pro Mountain Lion for a while. But suddenly it won't work. It sais it can't find the disk. Even though I can connect through
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I have a Ubuntu machine running 12.04 LTS on it. I had a very small "/" partition at the beginning, say of 16 GB. Now i added a 50 GB to it which i split from another partition and added to the "/". ...

I am running Ubuntu LTS 12.04 and I have mounted an ISO image to the /media directory. The command I used to mount is mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro name_of_iso.iso /media.
Am I correct to refer to it ...

Sometimes, the BIOS runs really slow on my Dell Vostro 1550 computer (10 seconds). When I go to the BIOS setup and switch to a different tab, the new tab shows up slowly. My OS (Kubuntu) runs normally ...

I'm not able to use unicode composition (The ctrl+shift+u method) to enter unicode characters in Sublime Text 2 (v2.0.1, Build 2217) on Ubuntu 12.04 (Unity). To reproduce, just open up a tab and do ...

I am trying to run Node.js as an unprivileged user (dmitry in this case). Hoping someone can confirm or, as necessary, please elaborate upon what I'm seeing below.:
Using Ubuntu 12.04 and upstart, I ...

have been searching an pulling my hear out for the last 6 hours. I have a virtual machine that has been running fine for the last six months. I was happy ssh'ing into it and it was running a database ...

I have a new HP Pavilion HPE h9-1130 Phoenix Desktop with Windows 7 64-bit pre-installed. I would like to dual boot with the latest stable release of Ubuntu, version 12.04.1 LTS. I followed the steps ...

I have an Asus USB-N13 which I use for wireless internet on my desktop. The download speed I get on Windows 7 (dual-boot) is 15.22 Mbps. On Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit) I can only get 1.09 Mbps. I asked a ...

I'm working with a system that invokes apt-get update from a Ruby Capistrano recipe. Capistrano cares (apparently) about the return code of the shell commands it executes. apt-get update is running ...

I'm not sure I'm even asking the question right, but basically what I'm wondering is whether it is safe to go about using the user that the install wizard had me create, and disregard the existence of ...